ASME Medal

{{Infobox award

|name= ASME Medal

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|awarded_for= highest award bestowed to recognize “eminently distinguished engineering achievement.”

|presenter= ASME

|reward= Certificate, honorarium and Medal

|country= United States

|year= 1920

|website= [https://www.asme.org/about-asme/participate/honors-awards/achievement-awards/asme-medal]

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The ASME Medal, created in 1920, is the highest award bestowed by the ASME (founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Board of Governors for "eminently distinguished engineering achievement".{{Citation |last=Dawson |first=Virginia P. |year=1996 |title=Knowledge is power: E. G. Bailey and the invention and marketing of the Bailey Boiler Meter |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=37 |issue=3 (July 1996) |pages=493–526 |postscript=. |doi=10.2307/3107162|jstor=3107162 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/asme-medal |title=ASME Medal |publisher=ASME |access-date=2011-10-01 }} The award has been presented every year since 1996 (first medalist was awarded in 1921), and it consists of a $15,000 honorarium, a certificate, a travel supplement not to exceed $750, and a gold medal inscribed with the words, "What is not yet, may be".{{Citation |journal=The American Engineer |volume=14 | issue = 1944–1945 |year=1944 |page=24 |postscript=.}}

ASME also gives out a number of other awards yearly, including the Edwin F. Church Medal, the Holley medal, and the Soichiro Honda medal.{{cite web|url=http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/ |title=Honors and Awards |publisher=ASME |access-date=2012-02-29 }}